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From: Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: chars_ptr vs char_array_access
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:59:53 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-07-25T16:59:53-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40d4db94-f0fd-417e-8aad-38a2dc2d287d@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lqunlc$fqo$1@speranza.aioe.org>

On Friday, July 25, 2014 4:02:04 PM UTC-7, Victor Porton wrote:
> To communicate a "char *" string with a C library, should I use chars_ptr or 
> char_array_access?
> 
> Please answer, it is important for some open source projects.

The answer is in the RM (B.3.1(22)): 'chars_ptr is C-compatible and corresponds to the use of C's "char *"...'.  It doesn't say char_array_access is C-compatible.

                                -- Adam

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 23:02 chars_ptr vs char_array_access Victor Porton
2014-07-25 23:59 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2014-07-26  0:04   ` Victor Porton
2014-07-26  0:07     ` Adam Beneschan
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